Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ...

On 8/29/2022 4:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>  From David Weber's Facebook:
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/david.weber.5621/posts/ 
> pfbid02FjnvX56nzzcej5PLiPn6n4fy6KHygEm2LVihw38KXcGyYLAD1sDCSaQpLPoXWKuDl
> 
> "Um. I posted this as a comment in a conversation about unfinished 
> series and storylines that would probably never be completed on one of 
> the TRMN pages, and someone suggested I should make it more broadly 
> available, so …..
> ———-
> Okay, I am looking to the future of the Honorverse and several of the 
> other series I have going. There almost certainly WILL be at least one, 
> and probably 2-3, more novels in the Honorverse, following END IN FIRE's 
> merger of the main series and the Crown of Slaves series. They won't be 
> written with ERIC (which i hate) but he and I always knew exactly where 
> the books were going, and they will go there. It is possible that the 
> collaborator I have in mind will also replace ME before the end of the 
> journey (as someone said, I am --- alas --- mortal, and I am one of 
> those writers who will never be "done"), but the end will be reached,
> Tim Zahn, Tom Pope, and I will be wrapping the MANTICORE ASCENDANT 
> series in the next couple of books, at which point we will tie it off 
> with a bow. Jacob Holo and I will be writing the story of Edward 
> Saganami shortly. Joelle and I are working on the next MULTIVERSE/HELL'S 
> GATE book, and we know precisely where that series will ultimately end 
> up. I don't know that I'll be here to see the final book, but I know 
> what will be in it and I totally trust Joelle, Sharon, and Toni 
> Weisskopf to get the series there with quality writing. Richard Fox and 
> I have about 3 more books to bring Terrence Murphy's immediate story to 
> a close, though we may go a tiny bit farther than that. We are looking 
> at doing the second book in the Murphyverse later this fall/winter. It's 
> already plotted and ready to go. Chris Kennedy and I just handed in the 
> sequel to INTO THE LIGHT, and I think it's solid. I'm not sure how far 
> we're going to get into that one, but I think we can keep our readers 
> satisfied. And the only reason I'm not sure how far we'll get is that I 
> set up a heck of a big enemy when I created the Hegemony, and it's 
> likely to "end up" with a case of Mutually Assured Destruction rather 
> than a clear cut military victory. Can't say that for sure; we got 
> farther in the current book than we'd really expected. I need to sit 
> down with Jane Lindskold some time in the next couple of months and lay 
> out the writing outline for the next STAR KINGDOM novel. We are 
> envisioning three more in that series, too. I have at least two more 
> novels in SAFEHOLD (might be 3) at which point I will be at a thoroughly 
> satisfying stopping point. (Could go farther if I brought in the right 
> collaborator, but I don't think it's likely.) 3-4 more books in the 
> SWORD OF THE SOUTH series, and then that's done.
> So, by my calculations, that's another 22 books I need to get written to 
> wrap up my current series plans.
> I'm 70 this October. I sold the first novel thirty-three years ago. 
> Since then, I have published (or have currently turned in, awaiting 
> production) 74 solo and collaborative novels, which works out to roughly 
> 2.24 per year. That doesn't count the anthologies, of course.
> I lost roughly 2 years to the concussion, and about a year and a half to 
> the Covid, so let's call it 30 years, not 33, which brings the 
> production up to 2.5 per year. And let's assume that I write for another 
> ten years, which (at the moment, and barring any anticipated encounters 
> with mortality) seems entirely plausible. By my calculations, that comes 
> to another TWENTY-FIVE solo and collaborative novels, in the process of 
> which I will be working with some of my collaborators to establish them 
> firmly in the existing universes going forward.
> People, like the characters in Richard Adams' PLAGUE DOGS, I'll probably 
> still be writing "when the dark comes down." That means, obviously, that 
> I won't be "finished" when I leave, but don't go around thinking that 
> you're getting rid of me next week!
> Just saying."
> 
> Amazing plans.
> 
> Lynn

Yup, I see 2 or 3 more SAFEHOLD books in those massive plans and 3 or 4 
more SWORD OF THE SOUTH books.

Should be enough to make everyone happy if Weber survives.

Lynn